Cruising the Greek Islands

I started out my trip boating around Greece with my mom and 170 other mostly Americans, mostly in their 60s and 70s. I have never been on a cruise before and, as I suspected it, is not my preferred way to travel. But my mother is extremely eager to get out there in her early retirement and I am very grateful to be able to tag along. And as the resident young person, I was kind of a hit. Many of the boat people were very invested in whether or not I had found a place to swim each day (I batted 3/7 on that front).

The best islands were, unsurprisingly, the ones I’d never heard of: Amorgos, Patmos, Delos. The supposed heavy hitters, Mykonos and Santorini, were way too crowded to be enjoyable. Santorini was so crowded that we literally could not even get on the island. But the small islands delivered. Here are some highlights:

Patmos